The Diets for Patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease

In daily life, if the patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) adopt some reasonable diets, it will be good to the patients’ recover. And some patients’ condition may aggravate because of improper diets, therefore, there are some noticeable points for the diets of patients with this disease.

First: Food that the patients should often eat and eat more, such as:

① Vegetables and fruits containing a large amount of vitamine;

② Vegetables and fruits containing a large amount of iron;

③ Vegetable food that can dissolve petrochemical stone, such as black fungus and etc;

④ Food which has the diuresis functions;

⑤Alkaline foodstuff which has the function of assisting treatment.

Second, food that the patients should stop eating or eat less
① Animal viscus: even cooked animal viscus are not suitable for PKD patients, especially animal livers. There is a saying in china that: eat what, tonify what. In fact, it is not correct, during the slaughter process much toxin has been
leaved in the animal livers and kidneys, especially animal livers. Because the function of animal livers is detoxifying and much animal metabolic toxin is leaved in the animal viscus. If the patients take in those kind of food, it will increase the burdens of kidney and aggravate the patient’s condition.

②Food containing a large amount of protein: patients of every type of kidney disease should adopt low-protein diets, avoid the combining of nitrogen class metabolites in the body and reduce the renal elimination. This kind of food includes soybean, bean curd and kinds of bean products.

③ Fermented food: fermented food we are talking about mainly refers to bacteria fermented food, such as fermented bean curd, rotten eggs and etc. It is good for controlling the growth speed of cysts to stop taking this kind of food.

④ Inebriant: patients with this disease should stop inebriant, especially white spirit. The stimulation of inebriant to kidney is rather serious, which can stimulate the activity of polycystin and accelerate the growth of cysts.

⑤ Coffee and chocolate, patients with this disease had better not take in coffee and chocolate.


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